This cold steel Kukri machete cost me about 30 dollars and is basically an inexpensive version of the more expensive kukri's they sell. You can dig, chop, smash, slice, cut and scrape with this knife under the most unfavorable conditions and it remains near impossible to break. It actually out performs my camp axe for a lot of field chores. If I do somehow break it I am only out 30 dollars as opposed to 300 for the expensive version.